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§460q–3 Administration; Land and Water Use Management Plans, Preparation and Revision; Utilization of Statutory Authorities

Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER LXXV — WHISKEYTOWN-SHASTA-TRINITY NATIONAL RECREATION AREA › § 460q–3

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

Each Secretary must manage the part of the recreation area they control so it fits with the Central Valley project and the whole recreation area. They must provide public outdoor recreation, protect scenic, scientific, historic, and other values people enjoy, and use renewable natural resources only in ways that support or do not harm those recreation and conservation goals. Each Secretary must write land and water use plans and can update them after talking with the other Secretary. The Secretary of Agriculture may use laws for national forests to help carry out these duties. The Secretary of the Interior may use laws for national parks and other conservation laws to help carry out these duties.

Full Legal Text

Title 16, §460q–3

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(a)Each Secretary is authorized and directed to administer the portion of the recreation area under his jurisdiction in a manner coordinated with the other purposes of the Central Valley project and with the purposes of the recreation area as a whole and in such manner as in his judgment will best provide for (1) public outdoor recreation benefits; (2) conservation of scenic, scientific, historic, and other values contributing to public enjoyment; and (3) such management, utilization, and disposal of renewable natural resources as in the judgment of the respective Secretary will promote or is compatible with, and does not significantly impair, public recreation and conservation of scenic, scientific, historic, or other values contributing to public enjoyment. Such administration shall be carried out under land and water use management plans which each Secretary shall prepare and may from time to time revise in consultation with the other.

(b)In the administration of the portion of the recreation area under his jurisdiction—

(1)the Secretary of Agriculture shall utilize statutory authorities relating to the national forests in such manner as he deems appropriate to carry out the purposes of this subchapter; and

(2)the Secretary of the Interior may utilize such statutory authorities relating to areas of the national park system and such statutory authority otherwise available to him for the conservation and development of natural resources as he deems appropriate to carry out the purposes of this subchapter.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 460q–3

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102